Use PowerShell to get some basic information about your domain and forest

Often I need to get some basic information about the domain and/or the forest of a customer where I’m troubleshooting an issue. Of course you could simply logon to a domain controller and check it over there. But what if that’s not possible, for example a customers that values there security won’t provide “some consultant” access to their domain controller.

With the following command you can get some basic information about your current domain:[System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain]::GetCurrentDomain()

And for the domain, the same command can be used with a minor adjustment: [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Forest]::GetCurrentForest()